As the Bride of Christ grows in maturity, God continually provides her with a new depth and sphere of fellowship with Him. In Song of Solomon 3 and 4, He gives her a clear picture of her protected position: she is a garden enclosed, a spring shut up, a fountain...

A Christian’s life is not built upon things which lag behind. The frailty of many is that they live off past success. The ruin of many more is living in past failure. As we begin a new year, or as we begin a new day, a new hour, a new...

A Body that has a vision has a Cross that comes before the sight results of faith. Its whole purpose in seeing is to discover the location of those blinded from reality. Many still want the privileges of seeing their own achievements instead of counting all but loss for the...

Can you imagine functioning in the letter while the Spirit has moved forward in the plan of God? We lose our understanding in the light when we are persuaded to be stationary and stagnant in our own plan. People actually stay behind God when God has moved on. God needs...

Many believers do not grow in the grace of knowledge, and therefore never grow in the grace of God’s mind. They have preconceived ideas about Christianity and they forfeit the privilege of growing in the mind of the Lord. They fluctuate in their own mind as it conceives God through...

Longsuffering is not suffering long periods without the activity of faith so as to identify with those outside of God experientially or at present in eternal standing. One would have no qualities to express if he identified totally with those void of life. Your sentimental concern for a situation can...

Christianity is concentrated work. The infilling of life comes by faith in a promise, but the outpouring of substance requires a work of investment. Your provision to provide others with life is no work, but the details of the play to give others a capacity for life is a (fruitful)...

Many people try to legislate faith instead of receiving it through God’s delegation of life. Because of pride and their rebellion toward authority, they produce words in order to demonstrate faith. One may temporally deceive others with this display, but he never will be eternally affected when he touches the...

The fourth hearer became the first because he received the Word as though it were personally addressed to him. He did not agree with the message for others, but lived it for himself. Every new word from God demands an immediate response of faith from man. The fourth man was...

Continuing the parable in Luke 8, we come to the third hearer. This one heard the Word and went forth, yet never brought forth fruit. Covering up through natural sincerity, he looked by sight to be dedicated. A first glance at outward appearance never will reveal a deceitful heart. Over...